Natural History Wanderings

Are you a strong writer, and looking to develop your , science storytelling, and digital communications skills? Seeking to pursue a strong interest in or freshwater ecology? Or perhaps are your thing, and you’d love to gain experience mapping invasive species or getting intimately acquainted with native Bay Area plant communities? If so, these internship opportunities may be for you!

The San Francisco Bay Area Inventory & Monitoring Network is looking for:

A Mosaics in Science SCIENCE COMMUNICATION ASSISTANT to share stories of science in our parks, especially about how parks have put long-term monitoring data to good use: https://tinyurl.com/sfan2024scicomm

A BIOLOGY ASSISTANT and FISHERIES INTERN to join the Coho & Steelhead Monitoring Program to collect habitat and population data for endangered coho salmon and threatened steelhead trout:

https://tinyurl.com/sfan2024fish and

A Scientists in Parks BIOLOGY ASSISTANT to join the Invasive Species Early Detection team with the mission of finding, mapping, and documenting invasive species occurrences in parks: https://tinyurl.com/sfan2024ised

And a Scientists in Parks BIOLOGY ASSISTANT to join the Plant Community Monitoring team, re-visiting established plots, ID-ing plants, and collecting data in target plant communities: https://tinyurl.com/sfan2024plants

Apply now! Some positions close after 100 applications or by January 21st, whichever comes first.

Looking for something a little different? All kinds of internships in national parks across the country are available from nps.gov/science/scientists-in-parks.htm

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Fisheries intern – NPS / Environment for the Americas / Avani Fachon

Science communication intern – Point Reyes National Seashore Association / Zoe Duerksen-Salm

Botany intern – NPS / Environment for the Americas / Avani Fachon